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by cess11 763 days ago
What's scientific about this? The README.md isn't clear about the philosophy of science that this tool supposedly implements and applies.

Seems to me to be scientific in the same manner ELIZA is therapeutic.

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I encourage you to look at the manuscript we have put on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17605 and go through the thread on X: https://x.com/RoyKishony/status/1785319021329674593

We will be happy to explain and even correct ourselves, if needed, if approached in a civil, respectful manner.

Skimmed through much of it, I don't see anything explicit about which philosophy of science is applied. It seems more like automated information processing, similar to what quant finance and similar is up to.

Do you belong to some popperian philosophy? It can't be feyerabendian, since his thinking put virtue as foundational for science. Do you agree with the large journal publishers, that the essence of science is to increase their profits?

Not sure why you think you've earned my respect, and it would be very hard for me to violate your rights since we communicate by text alone.